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Re:Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:21AM (#45199070)
Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/908/
absolutely. the first time i learned more deeply about embeddings i was like "whoa... at least a third of the magic of LLMs comes from embeddings". Understanding that words were already semantically arranged in such a useful pattern demystified LLMs a little bit for me. they're still wonderous, but it feels like the curtain has been rolled back a tiny bit for me